Crossword-Solution: ASPERSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Asperse | v. t. | To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust. |
| Asperse | v. t. | To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ASPERSE | anagram | PARESES, PARSEES, SERAPES |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with ASPERSE (5)
Men asperse their neighbors by malignant insinuations; they defame by advancing charges to blacken or sully their fair fame; they slander or calumniate by spreading injurious reports which are false, or by magnifying slight faults into serious errors or crimes.
But what perplexed us most was to think who could be so base as to asperse the character of a family so harmless as ours, too humble to excite envy, and too inoffensive to create disgust.
Who would dare to asperse the character of this perfect, lovely, and intellectual schoolmistress? I am not jealous, Geoffrey——” “I should think not, Honoria, seeing how things are.” “I am not jealous, I repeat, but please understand that I will not have this go on, in your own interests and mine.
Everything that rancour, low wit, and deplorable ignorance could conceive to asperse my government, was put in execution.
But 'tis no secret that they love some of us here; wherefore I misdoubt that, if we take them with us, we may thereby give occasion for scandal and censure merited neither by us nor by them." "That," said Filomena, "is of no consequence; so I but live honestly, my conscience gives me no disquietude; if others asperse me, God and the truth will take arms in my defence.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 61 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).